Your health: Study says global pollution is deadlier than wars, death and hunger

Updated:
10/20/2017 1:01:42 AM EDT

Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water, kills more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. The study released in The Lancet Medical Journal says one out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 - about 9 million - could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure.